After months and months of feel-good conversation, FCC blog posts, and countless roundtables, there's just 41 days left until the FCC is supposed to unveil our first ever broadband plan to Congress. However, the FCC is asking Congress for a one month extension, so they can dig through the massive volume of public input comments into the plan. Republican FCC Commissioner Robert ("what broadband problem?") McDowell complained this week that Commissioners have yet to actually see the plan, and was quick to give his Democratic counterparts a swat to the nose for being late out of the gate:It's not entirely clear why the extension is necessary, given that most industry watchers believe the plan does absolutely nothing to rattle the broadband industry status quo. Consumer advocates were recently given an early glimpse at the plan and came away very underwhelmed, noting that it oddly fails to even really touch on the industry's biggest problem: a lack of substantive competition. Industry-watcher Dave Burstein, who has been writing about the industry since its inception and has more broadband knowledge than probably the entire FCC staff combined, wasn't particularly kind to Uncle Sam in his latest industry newsletter:Unless you're a carrier eager to perpetuate the duopoly status quo, the plan appears poised to land with a serious thud, disappointing those who wanted the FCC to take this unique opportunity to engage in bold and revolutionary policy. This of course is tied to bipartisan political fealty to the biggest and wealthiest carriers, and it's unlikely that's going to change with a one month extension.